<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 32-50. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
               
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               <span class="ital">Availability fees</span> means those charges as established by the board from time to time and charged to
               county property owners for the availability of curbside pick-up and solid waste collection
               sites.
               
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               <span class="ital">Board</span> means Board of Commissioners of Hyde County.
               
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               <span class="ital">Bulky waste</span> means large items of solid waste such as furniture, large auto parts, trees, branches,
               stumps, and other oversize wastes whose large size precludes or complicates their
               handling by normal solid waste collection, processing, or disposal methods.
               
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               <span class="ital">Collection</span> means the act of removing solid waste (or materials that have been separated for
               the purpose of recycling) to a transfer station, processing facility, or disposal
               facility.
               
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               <span class="ital">Commercial solid waste</span> means all types of solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses,
               and other non-manufacturing activities, excluding residential and industrial waste.
               
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               <span class="ital">Construction and demolition waste</span> means solid waste resulting solely from construction, remodeling, repair, or demolition
               operations on buildings, or other structures, but does not include inert debris, land-clearing
               debris, yard debris, or used asphalt, asphalt mixed with dirt, sand, gravel, rock,
               concrete, or similar nonhazardous material.
               
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               <span class="ital">Department</span> means the Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources.
               
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               <span class="ital">Disposal bags and tags</span> means plastic bags and tags, approved from time to time by the county board of commissioners
               and sold by the county or authorized independent agents to county residents or solid
               waste users for the disposal of garbage, refuse and other types of solid waste.
               
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               <span class="ital">Garbage</span> means all putrescible waste, including animal offal and carcasses, and recognizable
               industrial byproducts, but excluding sewage and human waste.
               
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               <span class="ital">Hazardous waste</span> means solid waste, or a combinations of solid wastes, that because of its quantity,
               concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may:
               
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                  Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious
                  irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment
                  when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of or otherwise managed.
                  
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               <span class="ital">Incineration</span> means the process of burning solid, semi-solid, or gaseous combustible wastes to
               an inoffensive gas and residue containing little or no combustible material.
               
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               <span class="ital">Industrial solid waste</span> means solid waste generated by industrial processes and manufacturing.
               
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               <span class="ital">Inert debris</span> means solid waste that consists solely of material that is virtually inert and that
               is likely to retain its physical and chemical structure under expected conditions
               of disposal.
               
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               <span class="ital">Institutional solid waste</span> means solid waste generated by educational, health care, correctional, and other
               institutional facilities.
               
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               <span class="ital">Land-clearing debris</span> means solid waste that is generated solely from land-clearing activities.
               
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               <span class="ital">Landfill</span> means a disposal facility or part of a disposal facility where waste is placed in
               or on land and that is not a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an injection
               well, a hazardous waste long-term storage facility or a surface storage facility.
               
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               <span class="ital">Medical waste</span> means any solid waste that is generated in the diagnosis, treatment, or immunization
               of human beings or animals, in research pertaining thereto, or in the production or
               testing of biological, but does not include any hazardous waste, radioactive waste,
               household waste as defined in 40 CFR 261.4(b)(1), or those substances excluded from
               the definition of "solid waste" in this article.
               
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               <span class="ital">Municipal solid waste</span> means solid waste resulting from the operation of residential, commercial, industrial,
               governmental, or institutional establishments that would normally be collected, processed,
               and disposed of through a public or private solid waste management service. Municipal
               solid waste does not include hazardous waste, sludge, or solid waste from mining or
               agricultural operations.
               
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               <span class="ital">Municipal solid waste management facility</span> means any publicly-owned or privately-owned solid waste management facility permitted
               by the department that receives municipal solid waste for processing, treatment, or
               disposal.
               
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               <span class="ital">Pathological waste</span> means human tissues, organs, and body parts, and the carcasses of body parts of any
               animals that were known to have been exposed to pathogens that are potentially dangerous
               to humans during research, were used in the production of biological in vivo testing
               of pharmaceuticals, or that died with a known or suspected disease transmissible to
               humans.
               
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               <span class="ital">Person</span> means any individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, unit of local
               government, state agency, federal agency, or other legal entity.
               
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               <span class="ital">Processing</span> means any technique designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character
               or composition of any solid waste so as to render it safe for transport; amenable
               to recovery, storage or recycling; safe for disposal; or reduced in volume or concentration.
               
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               <span class="ital">Putrescible</span> means solid waste capable of being decomposed by microorganisms with sufficient rapidity
               as to cause nuisances from odors and gases, such as kitchen wastes, offal, animal
               carcasses, or crab and vegetable scraps.
               
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               <span class="ital">Radioactive waste</span> means waste containing any material, whether solid, liquid, or gas, that emits ionizing
               radiation spontaneously.
               
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               <span class="ital">Recycling</span> means the process by which solid waste or recovered materials are collected, separated,
               or processed, and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products.
               
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               <span class="ital">Refuse</span> means solid waste, other than garbage or ashes, from residences, commercial establishments,
               and institutions.
               
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               <span class="ital">Regulated medical waste</span> means blood and body fluids in individual containers in volumes greater than 20 ml.,
               microbiological waste, and pathological waste that has not been treated pursuant to
               rules promulgated by the department.
               
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               <span class="ital">Resource recovery</span> means the process of obtaining material or energy resources from discarded solid
               waste that no longer has any useful life in its present form and preparing the solid
               waste for recycling.
               
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               <span class="ital">Sanitary landfill</span> means a facility for disposal of solid waste on land in a sanitary manner in accordance
               with the rules concerning sanitary landfills adopted pursuant to G.S. ch. 130A,<a href="" data-chunk-id="PTIICOOR_CH9RE" class="section-link" data-product-id="14661"> art. 9</a>.
               
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               <span class="ital">Scrap tire</span> means a tire that is no longer suitable for its original, intended purpose because
               of wear, damage, or defect.
               
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               <span class="ital">Septage</span> means solid waste that is a fluid mixture of untreated and partially treated sewage
               solids, liquids, and sludge of human or domestic origin that is removed from a septic
               tank system.
               
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               <span class="ital">Sharps</span> means needles, syringes, and scalpel blades.
               
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               <span class="ital">Sludge</span> means any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial,
               institutional, or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant,
               or air pollution control facility, or any other waste having similar characteristics
               and effects.
               
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               <span class="ital">Solid waste</span> means any hazardous or nonhazardous garbage, refuse, or sludge from as waste treatment
               plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility, domestic sewage
               and sludges generated by the treatment thereof in sanitary collection, treatment and
               disposal systems, and other material that is either discarded or is being accumulated,
               stored or treated prior to being discarded, or has served its original intended use
               and is generally discarded, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous
               material resulting from industrial, institutional, commercial, and agricultural operations,
               and from community activities. The term does not include:
               
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                  Fecal waste from fowls and animals other than humans;
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  Solid or dissolved material in:
                  
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                  a.
                  
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                  Domestic sewage and sludges generated by treatment thereof of sanitary sewage collection,
                  treatment, and disposal systems that are designed to discharge effluents to the surface
                  waters;
                  
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                  b.
                  
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                  Irrigation return flows; and
                  
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                  c.
                  
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                  Wastewater discharges and the sludges incidental to and generated by treatment which
                  are point sources subject to permits granted under section 402 of the Water Pollution
                  Control Act, as amended (P.L. 92-500), and permits granted under G.S. 143-215.1 by
                  the Environmental Management Commission. However, any sludges that meet the criteria
                  for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for purposes of this definition;
                  
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                  (3)
                  
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                  Oils and other liquid hydrocarbons controlled under G.S. ch. 143, art. 21A. However,
                  any oils or other liquid hydrocarbons that meet the criteria for hazardous waste under
                  RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of definition;
                  
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                  (4)
                  
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                  Any sources, special nuclear or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy
                  Act of 1954, as amended (42 USC 2011);
                  
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                  (5)
                  
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                  Mining refuse covered by the North Carolina Mining Act, G.S. 74-46 through 74-68 and
                  regulated by the North Carolina Mining Commission. However, any specific mining waste
                  that meets the criteria for hazardous waster under RCRA shall also be a solid waste
                  for the purposes of this definition.
                  
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               <span class="ital">Solid waste collector</span> means any person who collects or transports solid waste for hire.
               
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               <span class="ital">Solid waste disposal site</span> means a location at which solid waste is disposed of by incineration, sanitary landfill,
               or other approved method.
               
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               <span class="ital">Solid waste receptacle</span> means container used for the temporary storage of solid waste while awaiting collection.
               
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               <span class="ital">Source separation</span> means setting aside recyclable materials at their point of generation by the generator.
               
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               <span class="ital">Tipping fees</span> means those charges as established by the county manager and approved by the board
               from time to time and charged for the disposal of construction, demolition, inert
               debris, land-clearing debris, yard debris, or used asphalt mixed with dirt, sand gravel,
               rock, concrete, or similar nonhazardous material and other types of solid waste.
               
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               <span class="ital">Tire</span> means a continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering encircling the wheel of a motor
               vehicle as defined in G.S. 20-4.01(23).
               
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               <span class="ital">Transfer station</span> means a site at which solid waste is concentrated for transport to a processing facility
               or disposal site. A transfer station may be fixed or mobile.
               
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               <span class="ital">Used oil</span> means any oil that has been refined from crude oil or synthetic oil and, as a result
               of use, storage, or handling, has become unsuitable for its original purpose.
               
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               <span class="ital">Vehicle (abandoned or derelict):</span>
               
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                  (1)
                  
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                  The term "abandoned vehicle" means a motor vehicle that has remained illegally on
                  private or public property for a period of more than ten days without the consent
                  of the owner or person in control of the property.
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  The term "derelict vehicle" means a motor vehicle:
                  
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                  a.
                  
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                  Whose certificate of registration has expired and the registered and legal owner no
                  longer resides at the address listed on the last certificate of registration on record
                  with the North Carolina Department of Transportation;
                  
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                  b.
                  
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                  Whose major parts have been removed so as to render the vehicle inoperable and incapable
                  of passing inspection as required under existing standards;
                  
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                  c.
                  
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                  Whose manufacturer's serial plates and any other means of identification numbers,
                  license number plates and any other means of identification have been removed so as
                  to nullify efforts to locate or identify the registered and legal owner;
                  
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                  d.
                  
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                  Whose registered and legal owner or record disclaims ownership or releases his rights
                  thereto; or
                  
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                  e.
                  
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                  Which is more than 12 years old and does not bear a current license as required by
                  the department.
                  
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               <span class="ital">White goods</span> means inoperative and discarded refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers, and
               other similar domestic and commercial large appliances.
               
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               <span class="ital">Yard trash</span> means solid waste consisting solely of vegetative matter resulting from landscaping
               maintenance.
               
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               (Ord. No. 116, Â§ II, 7-15-2002)
               
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